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The source code of each release of OMERO is available for download from the
Source code section of the OMERO download page.

Note

At the moment, this source code bundle does not contain the version of
Bio-Formats. To include this version information, you will need to manually
copy the ant/gitversion.xml file included in the source code bundle
of Bio-Formats for the same release under components/bioformats/ant.

To use the Git source repository, you will need to install Git on your system.
See the Using Git section of the Contributing
documentation for more information on how to install and configure Git.

The main repository for OMERO is available from
https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy.
Most OME development is currently happening on GitHub, therefore it is highly
suggested that you become familiar with how it works, if not create an account
for yourself.

Start by cloning the official repository:

gitclonehttps://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy.git

Since the openmicroscopy repository now makes use of submodules, you first
need to initialize all the submodules:

cdopenmicroscopygitsubmoduleupdate--init

Alternatively, with version 1.6.5 of git and later, you can pass the
--recursive option to git clone and initialize all submodules:

To install the dependencies required to run the OMERO.server on Linux
or Mac OS X, take a look at the
OMERO.server installation page where you will also find links
to walk-throughs for specific platforms.

Some environment variables may need to be set up before building the server:

If the system slice files cannot be found you must set SLICEPATH
to point to the slice directory of the Ice installation.

Once all the dependencies and environment variables are set up, you can build
the server using: